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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101591840066

ISBN-139781591840060

eBay Product ID (ePID)2449072

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Book TitleWal-Mart Decade : How a New Generation of Leaders Turned Sam Walton's Legacy into the World's #1 Company

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLeadership, Industries / Retailing, Personal Success, Entrepreneurship, General, Business

Publication Year2003

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, Business & Economics

AuthorRobert Slater

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-040588

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal381/.149/0973

Table Of ContentPart One H Wal-Mart Today1 Celebrating in a Basketball Arena 3 Part Two H The Founder and His Legacy2 The Man from Kingfisher 233 Give Me a Squiggly: Sam Walton's Culture 434 Avoid the Layers, Avoid the Frills 56 Part Three H A New Wal-Mart, a New Team5 A New Management Team Follows Mr. Sam 716 A Strategy of Growth 88 Part Four H Wal-Mart as a Growth Engine7 The More Complex Wal-Mart Today 1038 Applying the Culture a Store at a Time 1159 Beyond the Seas: A New Outlet for Growth 13110 Live Snakes and Turtle Races: Wal-Mart in China 147 Part Five H Who Defines Wal-Mart?11 Mr. Logistics Takes Over 16312 A Matter of Reputation: Taking the Gloves Off 17813 A Strategy for the Twenty-first Century: The New Openness 193 Part Six H Whither Wal-Mart?14 Where the Future Will Take Wal-Mart 215 Acknowledgments 223 Notes 229 Index 235

Synopsis- Both Get Better or Get Beaten: 31 Leadership Secrets of G.E.'s Jack Welch and Jack Welch and the G.E. Way were national bestsellers- This is the first positive book about Wal-Mart's management since Sam Walton's Made in America (1992), Inside one of America's most remarkable success stories, from the bestselling author of Jack Welch and the G.E. Way. Two of the toughest challenges for any company are leadership transitions and rapid growth. How do you replace an enormously popular and beloved CEO-especially one who started from scratch to create a national icon? And how do you maintain a rapid growth rate without losing the culture and focus of a small company? Over the past ten years, since the death of the legendary Sam Walton, Wal-Mart has passed both challenges with flying colors. In 1992, it had revenues of $43.9 billion; now it's number one on the Fortune 500 list of America's largest companies, with revenues of $218 billion. Sam Walton's successors have taken the company into far-flung new markets and new directions yet without losing the down-to-earth retailing culture that made Wal-Mart thrive in its early years, when its business model was truly revolutionary. Robert Slater, a highly respected business journalist and author, was granted unprecedented access to the company while writing The Wal-Mart Decade. He takes readers deep into the inner circle, where the big decisions are made about strategy and operations. And he weaves a fascinating, accessible story about the many challenges of the past decade and how Wal-Mart built on its founder's legacy to overcome them.

LC Classification NumberHF5465.U64W357 2003